frame
Example Sentences
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“Wuthering Heights” begins with a slowly intensifying squeaking noise, bellowing out over a blank black frame.
From Salon
Filling some of the sedan void is a new wave of entry-level vehicles that, like GM’s Trax, are built on the frame of a compact car but feature the higher ride and a truncated liftgate.
"All of this frames how the media and the public make sense of Liu and Gu, who have been cast as the good and bad immigrant respectively," says Professor Richard King of Columbia College Chicago.
From BBC
Pushed on whether she agreed with Millar, she said: "It's a loose framing."
From BBC
I love a bildungsroman as a novel conceit and as a framing device.
From Los Angeles Times
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